Educators

Some Educators find STEAM and Entrepreneurship challenging to teach.

The ESTE® Self-Assessment helps Educators identify their innate ESTE traits, which make them effective in the classroom.

Empower Educators & Inspire Students

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The abundance of information and tools available to educators can be overwhelming, making it difficult to identify solutions that support students' natural skills and traits.

As a result, helping students find their passions can get lost in the day-to-day requirements of educating a diverse collection of students. Immediate metrics are met but at a potential long-term cost.

Students who feel connected to their educators, inspired by the topics, and passionate about subjects may be better prepared for extracurricular engagement, college, and future careers.

The ESTE Self-Assessment was designed to solve some of the STEAM attrition that educators see as students progress in their education, by understanding the student at a fundamental level. Attrition in STEAM is especially high in girls who may be inadvertently subjected to gender bias or don’t see themselves reflected in their fields of interest. Educators who are empowered with the knowledge of their own Creative Thinking and Creative Feeling Modes can begin to bridge the gap for their students and inspire them to stick with STEAM as they grow into adults.

“If you give children opportunities to nurture what they love, they will thrive.”

Jose Duenas- Balboa Middle School Teacher, Retired 2024 | Association Student Body Director, Electives Department Chair I California Association of Directors of Activities 2021 Jack Moore Award Recipient.

One Quick Assessment, Hundreds of Applications

Your Experience with ESTE begins with the ESTE Self-Assessment, completed online and takes about 20 minutes.

Your results will show your personalized Avatar, combining your preferred Creative Thinking and Creative Feeling Modes. The four Creative Thinking Modes are Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, and Engineering, which relate to task process and outcome. The 20 Creative Feeling Modes identify how you communicate and work with others in a way that motivates you and the recipient.

Your results will be compiled in a report that breaks down what your Avatar means to you and how to work most effectively with others, such as peers, advisors, and students. By understanding what makes a person tick, we can support their personal development and inspire by creating a safe space for growth.

Tools for the Educator Toolkit


Increased opportunities to practice self-efficacy in your own STEAM abilities and acquire new elements to effectively teach these subjects to students.


Renewed creative inspiration and confidence to flourish within your identified Creative Thinking Mode.


Expanded communication tools to engage with other educators, administrators, and students using interactive approaches inherent in the ESTE framework.


Provide role-model resources with diverse and relatable models in STEAM fields so students can see their reflections and model STEAM identities.

General FAQ

Educator FAQ

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